Showtime is hosting its worldwide premiere event tonight for “Penny Dreadful“, their new tent pole show they’ve gone above and beyond to share on digital platforms (the actual show premieres on Sunday, 5/11 at 10pm). According to @SHO_Penny, “#PennyDreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together classic horror stories into a new adult drama.” The network will be live-tweeting the premiere tonight and are asking fans who want to experience the big event to tune-in on Twitter. More importantly Showtime “will also be re-posting the Pilot Sampling around 8:15PM and will be encouraging fans to watch along in real-time, as if they’re at the actual screening.” The network has also made the episode available in advance, “on YouTube, SHO.com, Showtime Anytime, and Showtime On Demand.”

Oscar awards season is underway. Here are the official trailers for Best Picture, Best Actor/Actress, Best Director, Best Original and Adapated Screenplay, and Best Documentary films in serious contention for 2014 film awards.

Click Playlist dropdown arrow (top left) to scroll through the full list of trailers.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear –
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.’